Society Cleaners, a personal history

A Coral Gables icon, Society Cleaners has been recognized by WPLG Channel 10, The Miami Herald, Wedding Wire, and has received awards from the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, Miami-Dade County and the City of Coral Gables. 

Coral Gables News, in a recent interview highlighted "fifty years of delivering exceptional customer service."

Coral Gables News

"I am proud to be a Gables resident and business owner," according to Lourdes Sanchez, the proprietor of Society Cleaners. "The Coral Gables community is a special one ... that I take great pride in serving."

From Coral Gables, Society Cleaners' bridal gown and valet operations extend from Palm Beach to Ocean Reef.

Lourdes B. Sanchez

There is a personal story: Ms. Sanchez, an accountant, left a corporate job to take over Society Cleaners. She took the time to become a certified yoga instructor and therapist studying with internationally recognized masters. 

An art collector, she is a regular visitor to the Norton Museum in Palm Beach during the season, the Dali and Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg. In New York, the Metropolitan and MoMA have always been priorities. In 2024, she took a special tour of the pre-Romanesque architecture in Northern Spain.

With an eclectic ear for music, she loves the jazz giants Sarah Vaughan, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Satchmo, and composer and lyricist Cole Porter.

From Thailand to Bali to remote villages in Spain and Italy, Ms. Sanchez has a wanderlust that nourishes her knowledge of fabrics, couture and folk attire as cultural expressions.

Fall weather in South Florida @SocietyCleaners

Fall in South Florida 

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Fall is a special time in South Florida. Professionals and socialites are ready to put linen aside and reach for light wools, cashmere, linen or silk cashmere or heavy silks. Pahminas are an essential accessory. 

In the case of men, suits and pants come in light tweed or worsted wool, and gabardine. Men and women can finally wear cashmere sweaters.

#SocietyCleaners #SocietyCleaners, the award-winning boutique dry cleaner in Coral Gables stands ready to help care your fall attire as it has done in its prestigious fifty-year history. 

Society Cleaners and Paris Fashion Week

Society and Paris Fashion Week 

Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode

Our fashionista clients have returned from the Paris Fashion Week bringing stories and giving @SocietyCleaners ideas of what to expect for spring. The story everyone talks about is Jared Letto starring in a movie about Karl Lagerfeld. Spain is proud having singer Rosalía as the face of Acne Studios.

The T-shirt reading “White Lives Matter” with a picture of Pope John Paul II on one side and a sign “seguiremos tu ejemplo” on the other proved controversial.

For us in fabric care, we can expect “spectacle” in gowns with sequin, brocade, and beading. lots of glitter "What I found," tells us a friend and client, is this "androgynous look." There was a preference for suiting in informal wear.  Garments, that exhibit or highlight the model-type physique are in the words of one of our clients “miniscule; I could not wear that to a cocktail party.”

@SocietyCleaners has always been proud to support our fashionistas but, please, don't bring Bella Hadid spray-on dress. 

Bella Hadid's spray-on dress.
Photo artistic variation from THE POST and Surekha

Ample parking and convenience at Society Cleaners

 

Society Cleaners: The Convenience of Ample Free Parking

Society's ample free parking

South Florida's increased traffic and overbuilding makes parking expensive and hard to find. @SocietyCleaners ' faithful clientele and increasing new customers praise the convenience of ample free parking in the front and both sides of our establishment. 

Real estate conditions make area dry cleaners establish drop stores midway congested city blocks or with one or two spaces. They lose the immediate onsite control Society Cleaners has maintained for fifty years and the spacious parking clients appreciate.

For quality in fabric care and ease of parking, Society Cleaners, the award-winning, press-covered boutique dry cleaners, remains the answer. 

Hurricanes in South Florida

 

Society Cleaners during hurricane season

Over its fifty-year history, @SocietyCleaners has helped its faithful clientele deal with the damages of South Florida tropical storms and hurricanes. The element of surprise, poor construction and the age of many homes in the area make them vulnerable to floods or leaks. 

As we encourage our friends, neighbors and clients to take every possible precaution facing hurricane Ian, Society Cleaners insists that (1) you inspect all your garments after the weather system for any sign of humidity, (2) bring any wet items immediately to avoid mildew stains, and (3) use every possible device to dry and eliminate moisture from closets. 

Society Cleaners stands ready to be of help during hurricane season. Stay safe. 

Society Cleaners, Essential for the Elegant Man

 Society Cleaners, for the Elegant Man

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Nothing feels like a hand-finished shirt

In its almost five decades under the same management, Society Cleaners (@societycleaners #societycleaners) has catered to the needs of many professionals, investment bankers, attorneys, media personalities, government officials, and others that require perfection in the care of their suits and shirts.

Society has distinguished itself providing its clientele hand finished shirts free of charge. It adds to the stellar reputation of the Coral Gables award-winning boutique establishment.  Whereas others may add a surcharge, our staff handles, proud of their work, locally bespoke shirts from Coral Gables tailors, high-end designers and the classics from Turnbull & Asser, Charles Tyrwhitt, Charvet, Battistoni, Kiton and others. Linen shirts and guayaberas, now a Miami staple, are completely done by hand. 

The well-dressed gentleman trusts Society Cleaners. 

Society Cleaners at the Movies

Society Cleaners, a movie set

Society Cleaners' Art Deco architecture has been featured in a museum exhibit at the Frost Art Museum, in a fashion shoot and in professional photographers' architectural studies. It is now the Coral Gables boutique dry cleaners' turn to be the setting for a movie.

The opening scenes of a motion picture detailing the history of an immigrant story were recently filmed in our premises. It seemed very important for us to support independent film making when the producer is a woman with a great artistic vision and a wonderful script.  A confidentiality contract does not allow our company to reveal the title, producer's name nor studio. The film is obviously in its early stages. 

For legal reasons and to preserve the sound requirements, we were not allowed to take pictures during the actual filming, the actors, dolly, sound system and lighting.  Care was taken by the studio to protect our customers' clothes, covering them with a heavy plastic material.

We will keep everyone updated about the future release.